Characters with enhanced vision

[Sarah]

Despite all my failings for the challenges I signed up for this year- I'm going to give PopSugar 2020 another try after skipping it last year.

One of the enhanced prompts is: "Characters with impaired or enhanced vision". ]I have a couple options for vision impaired characters- but I wanted something on the other side too.

So can you think of any books where the characters have enhanced vision?

[Eva]

Yes, I can:

- Old Man's War by John Scalzi features a future in which you can only sign up for the military once you turn 75 years of age. This military defends human colonies from various alien forces (while also doing some very questionable things) and our protagonist joins them when he turns 75 without really knowing what exactly he's signing up for, nor how they're going to turn him into a soldier at his age. Not to spoil anything, but enhanced cat-eye vision is part of the deal. It's a novel with a warm sense of humor, good science and memorable characters.

- any Star Trek novel featuring Geordi or Data

- if you can read German: Die Starfarer-Verschwörung: Die Sax-Chroniken 1 by Richard Schwartz features a future in which people's vision and reflexes have been enhanced by nanobots (it's a space opera)

- In The Short Victorious War, the third book in the Honor Harrington series, the protagonist has received an eye implant after losing it in the previous novel (so The Honor of the Queen can be read to meet the "impaired vision" requirement. I think the second book works well even if you haven't read the first one in the series: I started with it and it worked fine as a stand-alone. This series is great if you want a female main character who's really good at her job (it's loosely based on Admiral Nelson's life and will remind you of Hornblower and the British navy, but in space with very tactical battles requiring a lot of planning and cunning).

- If you prefer Urban Fantasy, Moon Called features a lot of paranormal characters such as werewolves who have enhanced night vision.

- If you like regular fantasy, but with many really surprising twists and turns, The Black Prism features a magic system based on colors: mages in this world channel colors they can see, and some of them can even see ultra-violet light or another kind of light I won't spoil which is invisible to others, and can work magic from that.

These are all I can think of right now, hope it was helpful and that there was something in here that sounds interesting to you.

[Sarah]

Eva wrote: "Yes, I can:

- Old Man's War by John Scalzi features a future in which you can only sign up for the military once you turn 75 years of age. This military defends human..."

That's definitely helpful thank you! A couple of these were already on my TBR but I didn't realize they met the requirements.

[Trike]

If graphic novels count, Daredevil is blind. Superman and Supergirl have supervision.

Blindness is about an epidemic that causes it.

Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld has a blind character.

Cyborg (adapted as The Six Million Dollar Man) features a bionic eye.